1. “Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”

利用你的时间，通过别人的笔尖去轻易获得他们努力得来的智慧。

2. “Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.”

怎么说，我很明显比这位要更有学识。只是我们俩都没啥可以炫耀的知识，这可能性很大；但这位自命博学，而我很清楚我的无知。不论如何，就因此我就比他有多一点的智慧，因为我不会自命博学。

3. “The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms. ”

词汇的定义才是智慧的开始。

4. “What a lot of things there are a man can do without.”

有很多事情对人来说不是必需品。

5. “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.”

我没法教任何人任何东西，我只能帮助他们思考。

6. “Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.”

污蔑我的人不会伤到我，因为他们不及我。

7. “I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.”

我曾经担心过，如果我只用肉眼观察事物并借用其他感官去理解它们，我会蒙蔽我的灵魂。

8. “True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.” 

真正的智慧只有在我们了解到对生命，自我和世界的无知时才会来到我们身边。

9. “To find yourself, think for yourself. ”

想要找到自我，先学会独立思考。

10. “Know thyself.”

了解自己为上。

11. “He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”

不会为现状而满足的人也不会为得到了想要的东西而满足。

12. “If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.”

如果一个人为自己的财富而骄傲，除非我们知道他是如何使用这些财富的，不然他不值得被赞美。

13. “Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.”

只要有崇敬便会有恐惧，但崇敬不像恐惧那样无处不在，因为恐惧的根源要广泛的多。

14. “They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.”

闲散人员不仅指那些无所事事的人，还有那些因为眼前的工作而降低了自己上限的人。

15. “One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.”

我唯一知道的事，就是我一无所知。

16. “Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.”

我们的祷告都应该是为了祈福而念，因为上帝最知道我们需要什么。

17. “I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.”

我只希望在普通人拥有无恶不作的能力的时候，也能够有无善不做的可能。

18. “How many are the things I can do without!”

到底有多少东西我是不需要的！

19. “I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.”

要想成为一个还能活着的政客，我可能还太诚实了点。

20. “Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.”

普通人好像不明白，这些在哲学上把劲用到对的地方的人其实是在很情愿的自寻死路。

小罗

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